560: Data Agents Got an Upgrade

Mike & Tommy break down the latest upgrades to Fabric Data Agents—MCP integration, OneLake Catalog discovery, multi-agent support, and Foundry Observability—and explore whether these changes finally move Data Agents from demo to production-ready.

They weigh in on the real tension: whether easier connectivity creates governance sprawl, how "one agent per domain" reshapes the one-version-of-truth debate, and what BI teams need to have in place before agent chaos takes hold.

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Fabric-data-agents-in-Microsoft-Foundry-Easier-to-connect-easier/ba-p/5318989
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/fabric-data-agents-in-microsoft-copilot-studio-generally-available/5362882

News:

https://www.meetup.com/chicagolandpowerbi/events/315787998/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/new-cicd-resources-for-microsoft-fabric-from-concepts-to-end-to-end-automation/5358502

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_pbiupdatesblog/upgrade-power-bi-dataflows-gen1-to-fabric-dataflows-gen2-with-the-upgrade-wizard/5360422

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_pbiupdatesblog/the-ai-semantic-layer-you-probably-already-have/5360197

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